Overview
Hope represents public and private sector clients on a wide range of labor and employment matters, including actions related to discrimination and civil rights, employee leave, disability and accommodation, wage and hour, privacy, and union relations. She also manages high-stakes employee investigations and designs and administers workplace trainings.
Prior to joining Franczek, Hope served as in-house legal counsel to a professional sports team. In this capacity, she directed employee investigations, served as a legal advisor on a wide range of employee and human resources issues, and advised senior leadership on sensitive labor relations matters across five different unions.
Hope also brings valuable experience from her time as a labor and employment attorney at a major Chicago law firm, where she represented employers in complex employment and commercial litigation matters in front of state and federal courts and administrative agencies. Her litigation work has ranged from class action defense to single-plaintiff discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims, in addition to significant trade secret and restrictive covenant work. Hope has also represented employers on a wide range of privacy matters, including advising employers on how to lawfully and strategically manage employee and customer data.
Hope is a graduate of Georgetown Law, where she served as an editor on the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Prior to Georgetown Law, Hope earned a B.A. with honors at The University of Chicago, where she also served as a member of the team that founded the Restorative Justice Community Court, the first restorative justice court in Illinois.
In her free time, Hope enjoys hiking in her home state of Montana and searching the globe for the world’s best bagel.